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Texas beverage distributor closing facility, laying off 109 workers

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Jumbo Beverages announced a permanent layoff of all employees at its beverage distribution center in...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/texas-beverage-distributor-closing-facility-laying-off-109-workers

ITS Logistics investing $100M to expand into Texas

ITS Logistics has announced it is building a 1 million-square-foot distribution facility in Texas aimed at creating a national distribution and fulfillment service across the United States, according to a news release.

The $100 million facility will be located in Fort Worth at the Intermodal Logistics Center, a development adjacent to BNSF Railway’s Alliance Intermodal Facility, and also in close proximity to FedEx and UPS regional hubs, Fort Worth Alliance Airport and Interstate 35.

It will...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/its-logistics-investing-100m-to-expand-into-texas

Wing to begin US commercial drone deliveries in Texas this week

Alphabet drone delivery subsidiary Wing will launch its first commercial U.S. drone delivery service this week in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area

Following through on a partnership that was announced this past October, Alphabet drone subsidiary Wing and national retailer Walgreens are launching a drone delivery service in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area, marking Wing’s first commercially available U.S. drone delivery service.

The new offering, which will become available to tens of thousands of residents of the suburbs of Frisco and Little Elm beginning Monday, has been a long time coming for Wing. The company has been testing its...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/wing-to-begin-us-commercial-drone-deliveries-in-texas-this-week

Texas snowstorm likely this weekend

Driver pulled into a truck stop on a snow day.

A fast-moving storm system will move across Texas late this weekend, producing a band of snow from portions of eastern New Mexico into the Lone Star State. With cold air already in place, much of the precipitation will be snow. But in some places precipitation will change from rain to sleet and then snow, or remain a mixture. The most likely impact zone will be from the Panhandle to Dallas-Fort Worth and the Texas-Arkansas border.

Based on the most recent computer models Friday morning, the bulk...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/texas-snowstorm-likely-this-weekend

El Paso market poster child for bullish US industrial outlook, CBRE says

To roughly paraphrase the classic 1959 tune by Marty Robbins: “Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, warehouse demand is high and so are the rents.”

Buoyed by the recently enacted U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) and by significant population growth that will support e-commerce activity, the Texas border city will experience a broadening of its manufacturing and logistics base at least through mid-decade, according to a report on the 2021 U.S. industrial property segment released Thursday...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/el-paso-market-poster-child-for-bullish-us-industrial-outlook-cbre-says

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